“The common trait of people who supposedly have vision is that they spend a lot of time reading and gathering information, and then they synthesize it until they come up with an idea.” — Fred Smith, Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
What are the benefits you got from 70 patents? My manager said requesting them are a lose of time. What I do with my ideas is showcase them in 1 pagers review with skip level managers and cross orgs, org hackathons, or share them in Op1/Op2. From one of the skip level reviews a team was created and from one of my proposal emails a product was created in another org. Though I didn’t get any visibility and people will forget it.
1) Patents are a credibility booster. The more famous the patent (or from a well known company), the bigger the boost.
2) However, patents alone are not enough. There must be results (either directly from the patent or outside). It follows the popular phrase "Ideas are cheap (everyone has ideas), execution is everything)."
A question to consider: If you believe in your proposed ideas that are getting adopted, why not transition to then lead the idea to launch (thus owning execution and getting patent acknowledgment)?
You might ask, why did you not transition once you returned from your leave? It is a great question but I am the kind of Think Big a lot and have other ideas already in progress that I am advocating for and making happen. Some I even did their UX research, 5Qs to driving their reinvent launches. I love how much we can influence and the tools we use help a lot to make higher impact.
In the examples I shared I couldn’t own the next steps of my ideas because I went on maternity leave. But before leaving I made sure to hand them over.
Unfortunately I am again on maternity leave and again another big idea finalist in an org hackathon was moved into op1 as a goal and I couldn’t own the skip level conversations and share all my vision. Such a bad luck haha 😅.
Though I’m happy my ideas become real, I wonder if I should create the patents.
“The common trait of people who supposedly have vision is that they spend a lot of time reading and gathering information, and then they synthesize it until they come up with an idea.” — Fred Smith, Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
What are the benefits you got from 70 patents? My manager said requesting them are a lose of time. What I do with my ideas is showcase them in 1 pagers review with skip level managers and cross orgs, org hackathons, or share them in Op1/Op2. From one of the skip level reviews a team was created and from one of my proposal emails a product was created in another org. Though I didn’t get any visibility and people will forget it.
My 2cents (note: I do not have 70 patents):
1) Patents are a credibility booster. The more famous the patent (or from a well known company), the bigger the boost.
2) However, patents alone are not enough. There must be results (either directly from the patent or outside). It follows the popular phrase "Ideas are cheap (everyone has ideas), execution is everything)."
A question to consider: If you believe in your proposed ideas that are getting adopted, why not transition to then lead the idea to launch (thus owning execution and getting patent acknowledgment)?
You might ask, why did you not transition once you returned from your leave? It is a great question but I am the kind of Think Big a lot and have other ideas already in progress that I am advocating for and making happen. Some I even did their UX research, 5Qs to driving their reinvent launches. I love how much we can influence and the tools we use help a lot to make higher impact.
In the examples I shared I couldn’t own the next steps of my ideas because I went on maternity leave. But before leaving I made sure to hand them over.
Unfortunately I am again on maternity leave and again another big idea finalist in an org hackathon was moved into op1 as a goal and I couldn’t own the skip level conversations and share all my vision. Such a bad luck haha 😅.
Though I’m happy my ideas become real, I wonder if I should create the patents.